Pierre Bouchard is a therapist who specializes in helping people live more free and passionate lives. He brings a love of attachment, interpersonal neurobiology, and trauma theory to his work, which is grounded in a sense of humor, humility, and curiosity for the profundity and oddness of existence. Bouchard is also very lucky to have been at the right place at the right time, hearing about MAPS' work with MDMA and Ketamine while he was training in Trauma Dynamics, a somatic trauma treatment approach, with Saj Razvi, one of the lead clinicians in phase 2 clinical trial of MDMA treatment for PTSD. What Bouchard learned working as one of Razvi's TA's for several years became the backbone of his clinical model for using ketamine to treat trauma and depression. Bouchard's first love affair with personal work was depth psychology, specifically the work on Carl Jung. From his teen years on, he was keenly interested in the development of conscious masculinity. Bouchard's own father died unexpectedly when he was a teen, so exploring masculinity became a central focus for him. This leads him into the world of Men's work, Robert Bly, The Mankind Project. Bouchard also developed an interest in martial arts and began practicing Chinese internal martial arts. Over time, Bouchard started to develop a better sense of his own body, how he carried it through space, and how to tune in to the senses (all things he loves now sharing with his clients). Bouchard maintained a martial arts practice for the better part of a decade, eventually transitioning to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Since then, mind/body integration has been a focal point of his own development and professional work. Bouchard has trained in several somatic psychotherapy modalities, most recently the Hakomi Method under Melissa Grace. Bouchard is also a student of Reggie Ray and the Dharma Ocean sangha that focuses on somatic meditation. And Bouchard currently trains in Ido Portal's movement system here in Boulder at Boulder Movement Collective. Bouchard has maintained a meditation practice for 19 years, has done numerous retreats, and has had the good fortune to study with great teachers including Joseph Goldstein, and for the last 5 years, Reggie Ray. Bouchard received a BA from Wheaton College in Massachusetts, double majoring in Psychology and Buddhist Studies, and an MA from Naropa University in Contemplative Psychotherapy.